Well, do you believe it?

Here I am, Todd Coates, a city kid my whole life, from Queens, New York. I'm bouncing on a bus through Wisconsin Dells, on a narrow, bumpy country road. Watching the trees blur past.

And the fields... the dry brown farm fields stretch- ing toward who-knows-where. Todd Coates. From the Greatest City on Earth. The Big Apple. On my way to living on a farm for a year. Is that possible?

The only farms I've ever seen were in the movies. They looked like living on Mars to me. I mean, where do the farm people go for good Thai food? And do they have Wi-Fi?